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† beˈstand, v. Obs.
For forms see stand.
[Com. Teut.: OE. bestanden = OS. bistân (Du. bestaan), OHG. bistân, pistantan (MHG. bestân, bestên, mod.G. bestehen), Goth. (and OTeut.) bistandan, f. bi-, be- about + standan to stand.]
1. trans. To stand by or near; to stand over (in solicitude); esp. to stand by (the dead), to mourn for. Also absol.
c1000ælfric Gen. xxiii. 2 Abraham hiᵹ bestod on þa ealdan wisan. c1250Owl & Night. 1438 He cumeþ and fareþ and beod and bid, And heo bistant [v.r. bistarte] and oversit. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3857 Ðor wæs Moyses sister dead; Ðat folc..after wune faire hire bistod Mid teres.
2. To stand round in hostility; to beset, press hard upon, harass.
c1000Ags. Gosp. John x. 24 Ða bestodon [c 1160 Hatton be-stoden] þa iudeas hyne utan. c1205Lay. 30323 Swa bið a bar wilde..bistonden mid hunden. c1320Sir Tristr. i. xxxiv, Stormes hem bistode. 1470–85Malory Arthur (1816) II. 417 In all my life was I never thus bestood. Ibid. II. 466 He is full straitly bestood with a false traitor.
3. To surround, encompass (as a wall, water, etc.).
c1205Lay. 23726, I þan aitlonde þat mid watere is bistonde. Ibid. 17175 Ich wat a wærc mid wundere bi-stonde. |